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Month: June 2014

Well what is witchcraft.. unbeknown to most.. we don’t eat babies, we don’t call Satan in, we don’t hex people, we don’t have warts on our noses and the one time I went into a catholic church to support a young friend in her Holy Communion, I didn’t get struck down by lightening, tho I am sure the bishop there that day was waiting hahahahaha. He made sure he introduced himself to me, asked where I was from and why I was there, then eyeballed me the entire service.

Witchcraft in simple terms is what many would say is a nature based religion and yes it is. It encompasses everything, nature, animal, energy, spirit, the whole kit and kaboodle.

You will hear us talk about tools of the trade, the Athame, crystals, incense, herbs, oils, candles, colours, wands and yes cauldrons. There are so many elements to this both tangible and non tangible, when I say non tangible, that would be our deities, the god and goddess, our elements (earth, air, fire, water, east, west, south, north) angels and much much more.

These tools are used in many ways, when people see the Athame, they see a knife, be it big or small and think OMG! as you do, cos to be honest knives of all sizes are intimidating, they can cause harm. In our case this knife is the element of the god, it is what we caste, open and close our circle with. Around that circle will be, incense, crystals, candles, salt, water and such, these will generally represent and correspond with earth, air, fire and water. When we are doing a spell or what we sometimes call a working for a specific subject i.e. protection, healing etc. We will then select more elements and tools that have a specific meaning to that purpose.

For example, for protection, I will caste my circle, have the crystals and other tools I need for protection. I will then caste the spell over those tools and crystals, then I send or give them to the person, they will then follow my instructions on placement of these things, right down to what is in their mind as they place them. Then we sit back and wait. We do nothing else!! Then I get feed back.

One time I sent some crystals and instructions with a friend at her sisters request. It was for the sister. She and her child needed protection and a resolution with their husband and father. Not two weeks later, I got the feed back, they were safe and well and husband was on track, getting counseling and they were moving forward as a family.

Just recently housemate started having bad re occurring dreams of someone about to attack her. I worked an Apache Tear Arrowhead for her, I cleansed, charged it, then set its purpose for protection. In her dreams this person came in to attack her, she had protectors around here but it wasn’t till I stepped into the dream and she pointed the arrowhead, that this person vanished. Three days later, on this plain, in the human realm, it has played out, with her being well protected and safe.

so that was just a little bit about what I do, how I do it and what it means.

hmmm Ego.. why did this one come up.. well a couple of reasons, a friend suggested it, I constantly see it and self reflect to make sure I try not to have ego, as its counter productive.

This is and always will be a lifelong battle with anyone. The gift is to look for, know it and adjust to remove it. Even now just writing in here and what I have so far, even tho I am just sharing my experiences, it sometimes feels like ego. So then I have to check myself and see if there was anything I can do to change it or does it even need to change.

Now what does ego have to do with spirituality, lots unfortunately, there is ego, then there is confidence, the two when you really get close to them are worlds apart, but sitting back outside they can sometimes look similar.

Ego is thinking you have done it all and know it all, when in life no matter how old we get, we still learn. Till I take my dieing breath, I will learn something new even as I take it. Ego is thinking, we are there, thinking that we are all encompassing, thinking we know all there is to know, thinking that we cannot learn from anyone whether that person knows or doesn’t know what they are talking about. Ego is dismissing others experiences and knowledge. Ego is locking yourself to one single path, experience, thought pattern.

You see being a human we are fallible, we make mistakes constantly and by learning from our and their mistakes is what will help us grow and be better people as humans and as spiritualists. Keeping in mind, the first time its a mistake, after that every time its a choice.

Getting into what my loving teen son calls mumbo jumbo shit! So if you do not wish to read about what is out there all around us, then please stop reading… Subjects will be ghosts, attachments, demons and the likes.

Ok, what I will speak of, is purely what I have had happen to me or others that I have helped and in no way is a broad statement saying that this is happening to everyone.

Firstly, I believe that energy is in everything, that we are on a different plain to the higher energies. As most say a lower frequency. We can connect with these things by opening ourselves through meditation to find our way there. Now saying this about meditation does not mean that it’s “oh I will meditate and get all the answers”, it takes time and effort and it’s not for us all.

I was blessed once with the greatest gift a person could ever have, I got to witness my grandfather crossing over. Now when people say “oh I can’t meditate because they can’t clear their minds”, it’s because that is the first mistake to meditation, you don’t clear your mind, you REFOCUS it.

For me, in my mind I will walk down a path to a very large well protected hedge, now when I say well protected I mean as I stated in my first blog post, you are open and vulnerable in this state. In my mind I see my wand or athame in my hand and open a door in the hedge. I step in and close it. Looking around to my left is a snow gum, slightly to the right is a garden bed and a bench near it, then further around a koi pond and gazebo, directly at the back of the garden attached to the hedge is a church, in the church is seating and behind the altar is three doors, left to right, past, present, future….

In this garden so far I have met guides, totems, healed and been witness to my grandfather crossing over, now I state this with clear clarity and certainly for several reasons. I am a sceptic, I will look at all other possibles before I come to this conclusion.

That day I was meditating at a group I was attending, I would check my phone, go into meditation, then when it was over just before we talked about what we saw, I would check the phone again….this day I didn’t check the phone. I didn’t get to it till hours later when I got hold of my wonderful step dad, he said he was gone, I then asked him what time and proceeded to loose the plot a little as that was the exact time I was meditating and saw him cross.

Further validation from my grandfather came in the guise is the smell of the old super fuel.. Lol weird I know, but he was a mechanic and loved tinkering and always in my younger years smelled of the old super fuel, now this smell was in my room in my closed house and it’s a smell that doesn’t exist any more…I sat back and thought, no it can’t be, then blow me down the smoke alarm beeped twice! Hasn’t done it before and hasn’t done it since… Validation again…

So do they exist, is what we see true? Some believe so completely and some do not. As with everything we have extremes, those who encompass it warts and all and those who live in what I call the blow the fairies up the bum brigade. Both of these things are dangerous and unbalanced. Now when I say unbalanced I don’t mean in the case of fruit cakes, but in the case of they are too far to one side and being either way leaves them to vulnerable to things like attachments and the likes.

To put a few of my experiences out there….

Level three demon, attached itself to a lady who was not protected enough, so when this person read a lady who is in a bad way, this entity decided that the game was on.. I was asked for assistance through a third person and with the aid if just a picture have dealt with the beast…. I will not go into specifics of what I do to deal with it as its not for the light of heart and you need a certain level of strength to deal with them.

I learnt to deal with these creatures when I opened a door while working with a wonderful group of like minded ladies. The reaction from that side of the fence and the ability to see and deal with them increased dramatically when all our energies where one. When we got together there were watchers, I could step in my mind to the next plain to see at least three watching me at all times. I once went out it my car and on opening the front door to re enter, I heard a very low nasty growling, there was nothing physically there and totally unexpected by me. It was what we call a demon dog.

I have lately helped a couple of children at the parents request, they have gone from sleeping very well to not sleeping properly at all, one young girl I attended to twice, the first I dealt with an entity and left a little boy ghost who she plays with there, with strict mother instructions to not wake her only play during awake time. I returned to her again after another entity came to her, a smelly man, again with just a photo I tuned in and dealt with it. While there I realized that the little one was completely open to everything and at such a young age she needed more peace till she is old enough to understand and decide for herself, so I have closed what I call her lotus flower on top of her head… So far so good!

Just last week I had to deal with another nasty critter, this time a demon of a sexual nature, he was attacking a 15 year old in her sleep leaving bruises… He too is now gone…

Now while I have pointed out the nasty arse stuff as an example, there is just as much good stuff out there too, they are family, loved ones, children, our guides and totems, who help us in some way every single day, with choices, safety and more.

So, they are here, they do not always explain everything, but it’s a possibility, I will always recommend seeing a doctor, changing environment or routine…. Process of elimination least to highest with spirit and demon being the highest.

Now I am really putting myself out here and some might say I need to be sectioned by the doctors lol but I think most of you know me we’ll enough too know this is not the case…

Now some good stuff lol, energy work and healing… This can be done I person or from a distance, to date I have helped with healing as far away as New South Wales. It’s purely energy work! I am not a doctor, I can not do miraculous stuff, what I can do is clear and energize chakras and auras, resolve and heal past life injuries, see and remove attachments that sometimes cause us harm. Keeping in mind I can get rid of these things but only you can keep them away thoroughly, by living a balanced and safe life as well as you can without inviting them in.

Some people do invite entities into their bodies, for example channelers, I personally have never tried and am not sure I ever will, but I have experienced channeling in person and the use of ouija boards… The channeler was extremely interesting and the voices and changes impossible to fake, the ouija, was different, but it was a time when I started to learn just how strong my power is, when I can block a ouija board and a psychic medium from getting anything, it’s a sign..

This can be very complex and a very individual thing, my story and life lessons are not anyone else s, they might be intertwined, but they are not everyone’s..

So really I can only describe my thoughts and feelings on the subject as they have come to me during the years to the point I am at right not in life.

I am now 45 years old. For the last almost 7 years I have worked with people with disabilities. My world label is, Community Living Facilitator. Why I tell you this will be shown as I tell a little of my life further into this post.

As a child I would help my mother with her wild bird care, I loved my animals, was fiercely loyal to friends and a soft caring child. My first employment opportunity was with a Pacing Horse stable. Typical me, gave it all I had, to the extent of one time working with a concussion, where looking back now, I really should have been taken to hospital.

During these years my friend loyalty would be tested over and over again. I seemed to give as much as I had of myself. Friends came and went, some stuck for a lot longer. I will never ever regret their part in my life as good or bad they taught me not only something about myself, but also something about the sort of people I could have in my life and those I couldn’t. I now use what I call a friendship circle, you earn your way into that circle and I let some boundaries down, but if there is a stuff that I cannot live with, you slowly work your way out of the circle. Some earned a big leap out. But some behaviours and choices that people make are some that you just cannot live with.

Now I believe that we have written this life before we returned in this body and this shell we exist in right now. So I believe that we are given things that we chose, we just don’t remember them when we come back. And that every thing we are doing is working on improving our souls and its accent-ion each return. I am hoping this is making some sense as its just flowing out, so I am not sure its in good order to make sense lol

All my life, I would help my friends through situations, deaths, loosing boyfriends, divorce, friendship losses, mental stability and happy times, birth of children, foals, puppies, new relationships and more. I remember in the early days, I would do the usual, hand myself over to the process so completely and with no boundaries, that I would loose myself in the process. I would loose sleep, get angry at their choices that were theirs to make, let myself feel hurt and pain when the let me down.

Now self reflection is a brilliant tool!! it is something that is so powerful and valuable. By teaching myself self reflection I have manage to slowly teach myself what I was allowed to feel, not what others made me feel, because really unless someone is holding a gun to your head there is no real way for anyone to make you feel anything, you are letting yourself feel those things by choosing it.

My longest friendship of 33 years ended 2 and half years ago. What did I do, I straight away self reflected and you know what, I was just as responsible for her behaviour as she was, I allowed her to be the needy feeder. I let this happen for so long that the one single moment in time where I was suicidal since I was 19 years old and I needed my best friends support.. what did this best friend of so long do… Her statement “I cant deal with this shit”. It was then that I realized, not only was I not getting any respect in the friendship, but that I was holding her back from learning by still being around, being that rock, being the person that was always there, was enabling her to stay stuck where she was.

My point of discussing the above in the guise of life’s lessons is. I am 45, I work in the disabled sector and probably will till I retire, since my move here and getting this job, a job that my entire life, choices and behaviours have led too this point in time, this job, this place, this home, my own home, fabulous supportive complete friends, who give just as much as I give out. Several extended families that I love and adore as if they were my own blood.

I know that my life’s lessons are not over, life is still throwing me new ones each week, month or year and every one will be learn t by self reflection, love, peace and forward action.

A young friend about Christmas time said something to me that threw me a beauty. She said, “As much as its horrible, I am glad to see that you have made a mistake”(this was about my mares laminitis and the fact at a time of great grief after putting her paddock mate down, I gave her the wrong stuff for hydration and it left her in great pain and a long road back) My first thought was wow, am I projecting myself as some perfect person, am I coming from EGO!

So what did I do, I self reflected and talked to the next best person possible, my bestie Dianna, We are very like minded in how we think and feel about many things, now Dianna and I hope to have an extremely long friendship, we are able to tell each other just as we need to, we see each other just as we need to and in great times of crisis, we are there for one another with complete loyalty and hand ourselves over to that moment totally. So I asked Dianna what she thought about the comment from our young friend and she said it just perfectly.

“Its not that we don’t make mistakes, its that if and when we make a mistake, we turn every part of it around to a positive and make it all better by moving forward.”

So life’s lessons never end, they are eternal, our soul energy is eternal. We are not responsible for what others, do, think, feel. We are only responsible for our own, thoughts, feelings.

* allowing a reading from someone without knowing if the person practices good psychic hygiene (will touch on this further down)

* Leaving yourself open at all times without a filter

* Letting your emotions run your life and thought processes

* allowing someone to connect to your energy without psychic hygiene

* allowing others to control how you feel and react

* making sure no one is ill on either side of the reading

What is Psychic Hygiene?

This is something every psychic practitioner should do, Its a bit like Personal Protection Protocols in hospitals, the washing of the hands so that we don’t get cross contamination, it is very much the same with energy connections.

Anyone who has connected to another should first and foremost have their own protection up thoroughly. The more Layers, the better the protection! Simple white light is simply not enough, my house alone, has layers of protection.

I have crystal gridded the property, then I have my witches bottles, crystal gridded the house, then my room where I work also has a grid. I also have other protections set up on the other plain. The more layers, the more balance and grounding, the better protected you are.

What are attachments?

These are creatures or entities who have connected to a place, person or object. They are not necessarily nasty,

but can be int-eruptive to a persons life, distressing to some, nasty to others and sometimes even physical.

So what can you do?

I will try and make it as simple as possible and not to hard to find resources.

First I grid the house, I do a salt around the property.

Grid tools –(crystals must be cleansed and charged under the full moon)

crystals of Tiger eye, snowflake obsidian and a rose quartz. Rose quarts in the middle of the house, whether under it or in the roof, split the rest and place them at all points of the property, push them underground, make sure your intent is clear and strong while pushing them under.

then I do the same with the house, just no salt..

bedroom, grid again, I like to use hematite in each corner of the bedroom and Lapis in the windows. The bedroom has also been smudged with white sage, frankincense, myrrh.

Personal Psychic Hygiene

Before I start, I will shower using Dragons-blood Soap, coat myself in my mind with a completely sealed gold armor. I am in my protected space, if I am out in the open and decide to open myself out there, I have a set group of crystals in my bag that I will use to create that space around me, imagining the pentacle and circle up above and below.

So you have done a reading on someone, what now?

Disconnect!!! cut the gold thread to that energy, cleanse yourself of it all, ground and send it into the earth or out the lotus flower on the top of your head and release it… Now I have mentioned the lotus flower, this is your door to the universe, this is your open, close and filter, you can open it to work, leave it lightly closed to filter what is coming and going through it, you can close it down.

What questions can you ask someone who you wish to do a reading for you?

There are a couple of things to be mindful of when you ask for healings or readings. Ask questions!

ASK!

* How do they protect themselves?

* How do they Cleanse?

* How do they disconnect and when?

* Are they well enough to do a reading?

* Do they take any sort of drugs?

* Have they had any alcohol?

* Are they currently ill?

If yes to either of the last three, run a mile!

Keep in mind always, that if they cannot answer these questions happily and calmly, then they are working in and with EGO!

EGO has no place in this work ever! Ego keeps us stuck, sour, unmoving and inflexible.

Grounding and Balance

These are so important!! I can not state this part seriously enough, if you are not balanced and grounded you are

in serious trouble. Balance is light and dark, yin and yang, do and don’t, come and go, all of these things cannot live without

the other. Embrace it all.. just because you are embracing the dark with the light, does not mean you are being oppressive

nasty or malicious, it just means that you are willing to be as completely balanced as possible and that if you need to take

yourself to the dark defensively for protection, you can.

Grounding exercise –

Sitting in a comfortable chair or laying down if that fits for you. See your toes moving like roots into the earth and latching

on and into the earth, open your lotus flower to and filter energy (don’t just flip it open!) from the top of your head down

through your feet into the earth and back up again, flow it through over and over again. If you feel light headed, slow the

flow and ease it back in. A good test of how grounded you are, is to shut your eyes, start your grounding, you will feel

Now in all of this, if you have been told or are suspicious that you are not well, have an attachment or are not in a good frame of mind…. STOP EVERYTHING!!! (except grounding) do not read, heal or connect with anyone, you risk anyone whose energy you touch, you mold and exchange energy and are then infecting those whose energy you touch!!!